By Innocent Anaba

The Lower Niger Congress, LNC, made up of people
of the South-East and South-South geo-political
regions, has called for the restructuring of the
country to allow each region feel equal with other
regions in the country and to control their resources for the betterment of their people.
It insisted that the outcome of the just concluded
general elections was a conspiracy by the South-
West and the Northern regions to sustain a master/
slave relationship between and among the
federating units.

Spokesman of the group, Mr Tony Nnadi, who
addressed newsmen in Lagos on the just concluded
general elections, that said the 75 million people
who make up the Lower Niger, will decide whether
they want to remain in the Nigeria federation and
under what constitution such relationship will be.
Nnadi said that the celebrated democracy in Nigeria
has left a deeply fractured nation where the ethnic
nationalities that make up the Lower Niger region
are treated as conquered people, who have lost
their power to participate in the Nigerian state as
equal pruners.

Nnadi said the brazen manner in which the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
treated the Electoral Act with disdain, the flagrant
abuse of voting in the North, the manipulation of the card reader scheme were all done to weaken the voting strength of the Lower Niger region while the North was given unfair advantage in the electoral contest.

He added that the Lower Niger Congress was
planning a self determination referendum in the
region comprising of the South-South and South-
East zones.

Meanwhile, President of LNC, Elder Fred Agbeyegbe, said: “Even though many disputations around our constitutional foundation remain unattended to and particularly without any hope of federalism being ushered into Nigeria, Nigeria has, once again, had an election, which the international community with their so-called interest in the workings of democracy, have, from reports submitted by their appointed observers, adjudged peaceful, free and fair.

“We are, nevertheless, compelled to observe that,
even if the rest of the world cannot see through the
facade of a penchant for democracy, we, the ethnic
nationalities, minorities, owners of the resources,
victims of and for whose sake the Nigerian brand of
democracy was wrought, are aware that their
commercial interests in a peaceful Nigeria,
overrides any pretended interest in democracy.

“Why else should the European Union and the
United States of America, the citadels of the
principles of equality, equity, fairness and justice,
accept rules of democracy couched from a slavery-
enacting document like the 1999 Nigerian
Constitution imposed by one group in Nigeria over
all else who had no participation in its making and
from whence comes the Nigerian notion of
democracy, considering that the Constitution is the
instrument mandating the elections they came to
Nigeria to observe?

“Perhaps it is better left to posterity to ponder
Foreign Secretary Kerry’s goading to quick elections
in Nigeria in the same 2015, in which, based upon
knowledge that so many ethnicities are entrapped in its slavery, some other Americans predicted that
2015 would usher in the death of Nigeria as a nation
state. For our part, the writing is now on all walls,
that it is time that those of us entrapped in the
Lower Niger, the area more at the receiving end of
Nigeria’s feudalistic system driven by the 1999
Constitution, should, soonest, examine our
obviously un-abating status of ‘’slaves.”














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regions-call-for-nigerias-restructuring/